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A Wittgensteinian Approach

Robert Arrington

In Philip Stratton-Lake (ed.), Ethical Intuitionism: Re-Evaluations. Oxford University Press UK (2002)

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R.S. Peters' 'The justification of education' revisited.Stefaan E. Cuypers - 2012 - Ethics and Education 7 (1):3 - 17.details In his 1973 paper ?The Justification of Education? R.S. Peters aspired to give a non-instrumental justification of education. Ever since, his so-called ?transcendental argument? has been under attack and most critics conclude that it does not work. They have, however, thrown the baby away with the bathwater, when they furthermore concluded that Peters? justificatory project itself is futile. This article takes another look at Peters? justificatory project. As against a Kantian interpretation, it proposes an axiological-perfectionist interpretation to bring out the (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 5 citations
Virtue Ethics and Particularism.Constantine Sandis - 2021 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 95 (1):205-232.details Moral particularism is often conceived as the view that there are no moral principles. However, its most fêted accounts focus almost exclusively on rules regarding actions and their features. Such action-centred particularism is, I argue, compatible with generalism at the level of character traits. The resulting view is a form of particularist virtue ethics. This endorses directives of the form ‘Be X’ but rejects any implication that the relevant X-ness must therefore always count in favour of an action. Download Export citation Bookmark 3 citations
Dancy Cartwright: Particularism in the philosophy of science. [REVIEW]Constantine Sandis - 2006 - Acta Analytica 21 (2):30-40.details This paper aims to explore the space of possible particularistic approaches to Philosophy of Science by examining the differences and similarities between Jonathan Dancy’s moral particularism—as expressed in both his earlier writings (e.g., Moral Reasons , 1993), and, more explicitly defended in his book Ethics without Principles (2004)—and Nancy Cartwright’s particularism in the philosophy of science, as defended in her early collection of essays, How the Laws of Physics Lie (1983), and her later book, The Dappled World: A Study of (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 1 citation

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